Cel­e­brate Jew­ish Book Month with #30days30authors! JBC invit­ed an author to share thoughts on #Jew­Lit for each day of Jew­ish Book Month. Watch, read, enjoy, and discover! 

Today, Shari Rabin, author of Jews on the Fron­tier: Reli­gion and Mobil­i­ty in Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry Amer­i­ca, talks about being intro­duced to Fron­tier Jews. 




 

Shari Rabin is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish stud­ies and reli­gion at Ober­lin Col­lege. She is the author of Jews on the Fron­tier: Reli­gion and Mobil­i­ty in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Amer­i­ca, win­ner of a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award.